Device for handling type-writer ribbons.



E. -G. MAGNUS. DEVICE FOR HANDLING TYPE WRITER RIBBONS. APPLICATION FILED 0012.3, 190g.

PatentedfMay 1909.

WITNESSES v jaimw IIVVENTOR Edward Cf .flfaglzqs morririi oiiiri EDWARD eniiitics niofiifs-oe nox"xliinnnixr.

DEVICE FOR I'HLIIDLING TYPE--VJR1TEH R IBEONS.

Specification of Letters ?zitent.

ffatented Maw :2 5,, 1-9024 Application filed October 3, 1908, Serial No. 456,017.

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Be it known tlml l. EDWARl) (I I .'l -\o't\'is, neilizen ol' the l i'llifll Htntes, and :1 re ident ol' Bonn--on--1he-lihine, (ierinsiny, have invenl'eil a new and linnroreil lievie-e i or l'lnn- (lling' 'lype-ll'riter Ribbons. ol' which the lollowing is :1. lull, elezir. znnl exam ilerirhpl ion.

The i'ihjeel' ol' .Hl invention is to proviile a device whieh nun be nseil in putting type- Writer ribbons on l. ,'pe'\\'riter=- zinil in remo-v ing the ribbon previous to writing. weX'sten oils, or when worn, without it being necessary for the operat r to t uch 1he ribbon with his l :inils.

Other objeets oi the invention will :ipnear in the following Complete (lesrription'.

in this specification ll will (leseribe. the preferred form ol 311V invention. but it will be understooil' that I til) noi limit myself thereto, as l consider myself entitled to all forms and einboi'linients ol' the invention which may be held to hill within the seopeoi the 'zippenrled claims.

. Reference is to be had to the icoonipoi r ing (lrawiinis, forming- :1 part of this speeiiication, in which sinnhir clmrznaters ol relenence indicate oorresponi'hng parts in all the figures, in whioh--- Figure l is a siile elevation oi'the invention with the l'nindles pressed together: Fig. 2 is a similar View but with the handles ilrawn apart from eseh other: Fig. 3 is a seeiionzil plan view ol" the device in the position shown in Fig. g liig. 4 is a. sectional plan View ol the device-in the position shown in Fig, 2: and Fig. 5 a. View showing one of the members after it has been stomped from a blanlg bnt before it has-been bent so that the planes of the lingers will be parallel with each other.

By reFerrin; to the drawings, it will he seen that my invention consists of two prin eipal members I, each of whion 1s stomped out ol a piece of metal in the form. shown in Fig. 5, after which fingers 2 are bent with their planes parallel with each other, as is best shown in 3 and. 4 of the drawings, a. handle 3 being bent over with. oneo'l the fingers :2, but a considerable top portion 4 substantially at right angles to the fingers 2 being left so that when both members 1 are bent'in. this manner and when one oil" the 1 members has its sides and. lingers slightly elosor together than (loos the other member,

it will be possible for one member to slide within the other member as 1s shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. Each of the members l has two lingers, one di posed on either sidefzinil there is e. hinge or hook 5 seem-eel to the outer tern]in' lol'eneh-ol the lingers 2'. This flange or llfiiili 5 is nroviileil to assist in holding a ribbon o, slnl to prevent .its slipping l'roni the fingers 2. .i intern-l lieoe 7 is seeureil to one oi the fingers"! on eneh ol the members i, this linng'e T being minpi'eil to ermit the ribbon (i to passnrounil the fingers on which they are seenreil; in an easy ein've. At a little (listzinee lroin the hinges 5 and above the i'hmgres 7 on the 'l'in gers to whieh they are seenreil, shoulders ts projeei out in alineinent with the ilangres so that the shoulders S and 'i'lnng es lorin the on and bottom ol' reee'ss 9.

ionising my invention, the members 1 with their ling r tion shown in 1* 1g. 1, when the lingers are ilis 'roseil around the ribbon (i :is is shown in Fig.5. 3) with the ribbon 6 disposed in thereeess 9 between the shoulders 8 and li aunges 5 and when the ribbon is thus disposed, the handles 3 are pulled apart so that they will (fill with them the fingers 2 to assume a position shown in Figs. 2 and i of thexlrmvingjs with. the ribbon 6 held between the fingers so 1h at its terminal mo lie-introduced into the lypmvriter, or the ribbon may be handled in any other 1i11fil1fii' l70 secure it to the typewriter a tlt'llll'wl'lli according to the fittings in the pnrtienlzn' machine onwhioh the rih bon is to be adjusted.

As is shown in the drawings, the fingers on the member which slides within the other inen her may be bent initwziriily 'in zilinement with the llllgOlrOll the other member, so that the members will be prevented. from sliding in and out beyond a predeiermineil wilstanoe, one of the lingers on each of the n'ien'ibers being disposed at its terminal and the other finger being disposed at the other side of the n'ieinber between the terminal of the member and the handle.

l l'ovinfithus described. my invention, I claim as new and desire to seonre by Letters Patent 1. In a device for handling typewriter ribbons, a plurality of handles, fingers on the handles, the fingers'boing adapted for moving to and from each other, and means on the fingers ,for supporting 9. typewriter ribbon.

2. In a device for handling typewriter s 2 are disposed in the posi-' ribbons, a plurality of handles, 2i plurality of Q near the terminal of a finger on each of the handles, the handles being adapted to move ing adapted to move to and from each other.

4. In a device for handling ribbons, a plurality of handles, and parallel fingers on each of the handles, the handles being ad apted to move substantially in alinement with each other.

5. In a. device for handliin ribbons, a plurality of handles, and arallel each of the handles, there lieing a lateral re cess in one of the fingers on each of the T handles, the handles being adaroted to move 6. In a device for handling typewriter ribbons, two handles, and parallel fingers secured to each handle, the fingers on one of the handles being dis used between the fingers on the other han le, the handles being adapted to slide relatively to each other.

7. In a device for handling typewriter. ribbons, two handles, parallel lingers secured to each handle, and a flange on the outer terminal of one of the lingers on each of the handles, the lingers on one handle being, disposed between the fingers on the other, the handles being adapted to slide relati each other.

fingers on 1 I substantially in almenient wit 1 each other. 1

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S. In a. device for handling typewriter ribbons, two handles, parallel fingers secured f to each handle, there being a recess in one of I the fingers on each of the handles, and a flange on one of the fingers on each of the handles, the fingers on one of the handles r being disposed between the fingers on the other handle, the handles being adapted to slide relatively to each other.

9. In av device for holding typewriter ribj bons, two members, each of' which is bent 3 with its sides parallel with each other, one ,m'ember being disposed within the other, ;handles secured to each of the members, lingers which form terminals at the sides ,of 2' the members respectively, and a fiangnear the terminal on one of the fingers on each of the members.

,10. In a device. for holding typewriter ribbons, two members eech of which is bent with its sides parallel with each other, one Iii ember being dis )osed within the otheiyhai dles se cured to the members, fingers which orm the terminals of the sides of the members re- 1 spectively, andm recess in one of the fingers 5 on each of the members. 1 In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD PEARL-ES MAGNUS, Htnesses:

LOUIS VANDoRr,

, Bnssin F. Donner. 

